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Hot air balloons rising in the sky at a festival – Antique Wall Art

Hot air balloons rising in the sky at a festival — historic image
Hot air balloons rising in the sky at a festival. Historic image from the Ballooning collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with Hot air balloons rising in the sky at a festival, a historic image rich in period detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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Hot air balloons rising in the sky at a festival

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Hot air balloons lift off over a festival field in this scene, their colorful envelopes stacked against open sky. Mass ascensions like this became a regular feature of ballooning events in the twentieth century, drawing crowds who gathered to watch the slow, deliberate launches. Balloon festivals grew from early demonstrations of lighter-than-air flight, when the sight of a fabric envelope rising on heated air was still a novelty to most spectators. Look closely at the crowd and the staggered positions of the balloons to see how organizers choreographed these gatherings.

Original scan2,816 × 2,112 px · prints to 9 × 7 in at 300 dpi
Reference1076632419_0a79b17d8e_o Hot Air Balloon Festival ajagendorf25

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